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You Do Take Offsite Backups, Right?

May 18, 2009

Analysis of:Hacked flight sim site in catastrophic crash and burn | www.theregister.co.uk

Whether you are an individual, or a small, medium, or Fortune 100 business, you should be taking backups of your applications and data. In addition to the possibility of hackers destroying your data or encrypting it and asking for ransom to get the key, there are many other reasons for backups to be taken and stored offline, completely away from any possible network access, and offsite to prevent damage or destruction.

Cloud Computing - Who's Watching Your Back?

May 15, 2009

Analysis of:Google networking error caused outage | news.cnet.com

Cloud computing is all the rage, but what happens when your data no longer is under your own control? What would happen to your business if access to email, accounting, and other information just stopped? Do you have a business continuity plan should your hosted applications or data go offline, become corrupted, or destroyed? And do you realize that the courts have ruled that the police can search your data without a warrant, as long as others hold that data?

Tight Integration Makes For a Better System

May 13, 2009

Analysis of:Ellison Insists Sun's Sparc Still Has a Future | seekingalpha.com

Larry Ellison has told Reuters, “We are definitely not going to exit the hardware business. If a company designs both hardware and software, it can build much better systems than if they only design the software. That’s why Apple’s iPhone is so much better than Microsoft phones.”

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